INVITING PARENTS TO SCHOOL DINNERS

This was posted by a parent in the Guest Book and I thought it was worth drawing attention to it here:-

"Instead of inviting all parents in each year group to join their child for a dinner but limiting it to 15-18 parents, why not do it like at the Infants. They have 13 dates in the year, one for each class, rather than per whole year group. Usually 4-10 parents turn up from each class on each date. This way more parents can come. You could still put a limit on the number of parents allowed from each class, but then if only 2 or 3 parents want to come out of a particular class then parents from other classes who didn't 'get in' can be 'rolled over' to this class date instead".

We used to have one date for parents' lunch for each year group but found that we had so many parents wanting to come that this disrupted the normal lunch break too much. We then decided to offer each year group a couple of dates instead but restrict the numbers to 15-18. This seems to have worked well and we haven't reached the maximum numbers for the current year 3 parents' lunches.

You're probably aware that we've arranged and published all the dates for the parents' lunches this year, but it's certainly worth looking into your suggestion for the future.
Thanks for your comments.

If anyone has any further thoughts, please post them here. Thanks!